No way to start a new login when using XDMCP

[Ken Sharp]

If I login locally, I can choose to start as many new login sessions as I please on the local machine.
However, if I first login via XDMCP there is no way to start a new session without first logging out of the remote machine, logging in to the local machine, and then starting a new session so I can log back into the remote machine.

Wouldn't it be better to stop an XDMCP session from launching on tty7 so that the local login is always available?

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

This is made much worse thanks to Bug 408417.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/408417

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
 * What version of Ubuntu do you use?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

I made it clear in the first comment how to reproduce the bug.

1. Switch on the computer.
2. Log on via XDMCP.
3. That's it. There's nothing more to add.

This bug is blocked by Bug 408417, which I have also said.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Is this issue present in all versions of Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Kubuntu, or a specific version? Can you tell us which version you are using, please. You can find the version using "lsb_release -a" in a terminal.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

I don't use Xubuntu or Kubuntu. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.1 but this has been an issue since the dawn of time.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

I don't even know how to use XDMCP with the new login screen!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gdm (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Yeah, no change. Trusty seems to add an option for RDP but there doesn't seem to be an option for XDMCP unless it is provided via a plug-in?

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

I don't even know what's going on with the greeters in newer versions of Ubuntu. I assume XDMCP has been consigned to the history books. I guess it's something I'll have to Google for a while to find a workaround.